At least six killed in shooting at Krakow’s main market square
At least six people were killed and sixteen injured on Saturday when a gunman fired from a car near Krakow’s main market square, a major tourist site in Poland’s second-largest city, which has more than 800,000 residents and lies about 250 kilometres (155 miles) from Warsaw. Krakow police said that around 3 p.m. (1400 GMT) a man drove into the square and shot at random people from inside the vehicle; officers were among the wounded. The suspect, a 25-year-old Polish man acting alone, was shot by police and taken to hospital. Spokesperson Katarzyna Cislo said he wore military-style fatigues and a bulletproof vest and used a long gun; numerous other weapons and ammunition were found in the car.
Police chief Marek Boron said the six dead were four women and two men: three Polish women, one British national, and two people not yet identified. Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said five of the sixteen injured were non-Polish nationals and that one of those killed was a foreign national; he also said the shooter was fascinated by far-right ideologies and held very radical views. Prime Minister Donald Tusk, speaking in Krakow, called the attack terrorism and later said Poland would observe two days of mourning. President Karol Nawrocki expressed condolences; EU diplomat Kaja Kallas and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz offered solidarity with Poland.
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